Category Archives: Guardian.co.uk

Plus how RIM lost control of its empire, and the invisible war on production costs A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Research, no motion: How the BlackBerry CEOs lost … Continue reading →

Plus what happens when you try to (lawfully) download Game of Thrones, and US official warns over Anonymous A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team U.S. Official Warns About ‘Anonymous’ … Continue reading →

Bill Weir of ABC’s Nightline insisted that he should be free to go wherever he wanted inside Foxconn – and the company, and Apple, complied. Bill Weir of ABC News has provided pictures from inside Foxconn’s assembly lines where it … Continue reading →

The Windows 8 Preview arrives at the end of this month – and if you want to get the full Metro feeling, you’ll want to try it on a tablet. But they’ve got unusual screen sizes – and they might … Continue reading →

A look at news providers’ offerings suggests careful selection, sharp focus and first-person views can often beat volume As editors struggle to increase their news coverage, to generate the indispensable serendipity and raise the “fun side” (much needed for legacy … Continue reading →

Plus John Battelle on Google’s Apple cookies circumvention A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team No comment >> Dave Winer I finally decided today that even though sometimes I get … Continue reading →

The shunning of .NET in order to get third-party Windows programmers coding Metro-style apps might make sense inside Microsoft, but outside it looks like a rebuff At Build in September 2011, Microsoft put out an architecture diagram, which in Microsoft … Continue reading →

Plus Apple is granted patent on slide to unlock ‘even though it existed two years before they invented it’ A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing … Continue reading →

Plus the Dead Platform graveyard, Motorola owners’ long upgrade wait, Galaxy Note reviewed and more A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Better as a jotter, … Continue reading →

Having built the Kindle Fire, some are suggesting that Amazon will next move into mobile phones. But that’s a tricky business to make work. Another one has far more potential to make money. Want to know what Amazon will make … Continue reading →

Plus did Guardian commenters call it right or wrong on the iPad in 2010? A quick burst of 5 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Tim Cook on the “Law of Large Numbers” >> … Continue reading →

In January 2010, accountant Paul Chambers tweeted that because of snow at Robin Hood airport, he was going to blow the airport sky high. His comment led to his arrest, and has now reached the high court. On this week’s … Continue reading →

Plus PlayBook sales grow (sort of), Blinkx gets into video, hacking porn and more A quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Hacker says porn site users compromised, claims Anonymous affiliation … Continue reading →

Preventing scams is critical for social networks – but no one seems very interested in indentifying bogus fans or followers Here is the latest Twitter scam I’ve heard this week. Consider two fictitious media, the Gazette and the Tribune operating on … Continue reading →

Plus testing the MacBook Air as a real ultrabook, social networks in a single slide, OAuth’s risk to data, why fragmentation won’t matter and more A burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology … Continue reading →

There’s been plenty of criticism of an article suggesting that Windows 8 will be dead on arrival – but like the mythical cat, the answer to this one is all in the observation The other day, Steven Vaughn-Nichols published a … Continue reading →

Since November another 400,000 people have started using Windows Phones where they’ve activated the embedded Facebook app. But when you put that into context against Android and Apple, it’s less good And just like that, Windows Phone has gained another … Continue reading →

Plus Liverpool-based ScraperWiki raises new funding, and an urgent call to inaction from the W3C A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google at Work on an ‘Entertainment Device’ – … Continue reading →

As digital photography takes over from film, smartphones are fast becoming an option for film-makers The decisive moment for smartphones overtaking point-and-shoot cameras occurred last summer when the iPhone 4 became the most popular device for picture uploads to the … Continue reading →

Plus Path’s data protection problem, Groupon’s loss analysed. Facebook updates its S-1 and more A quick burst of 10 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team We’re very sorry, BlackBerry users >> Kayak blog From … Continue reading →

Women-only social network Luluvise lets its members rate the men they’ve dated – but should they be posting personal sensitive data without the men’s permission? Luluvise describes itself as “a social network for women”. It’s loved by the technology media, … Continue reading →

Plus the mysterious case of the address book and Path A quick burst of 5 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Yahoo loses chairman as board is shaken again >> guardian.co.uk In case you … Continue reading →

A paper by a Dutch intern reveals that in 2010 it took just 12 weeks to get Mac OSX’s kernel ported from Intel to ARM as part of a ‘larger project’. Like Microsoft and Windows 8, there are bigger aims … Continue reading →

Plus what an apparently ex-Zynga employee is saying over at Reddit (and it’s not pretty) A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Halliburton to ditch BlackBerrys in corporate transition to … Continue reading →

This week, Aleks Krotoski meets web pioneer Ted Nelson. Way back in 1960, Nelson conceived a world-wide electronic publishing system capable of acting as a repository for all human knowledge, with links that allowed users to navigate between documents – … Continue reading →